Star Operator

U+22C6

About Star Operator

Star Operator is the Unicode character ⋆ at codepoint U+22C6 in the Mathematical Operators block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Star Operator

To use the Star Operator symbol (⋆) in HTML, insert the entity ⋆ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⋆ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\22C6';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u22C6' evaluates to ⋆. In Python source, write '\u22C6'.

The character encodes to E2 8B 86 as UTF-8 bytes and 22C6 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8902.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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